"Britain is seething with anti-war activity at the moment. Our presentation at Downing St was interrupted by hundreds of schoolchildren, who had taken the day off from school to as part of a day of childrens protest about the war. They came charging down the Mall with their banners, blocked the road at the end of Downing St and all sat down. A couple of them tried to storm the iron gates, but they were hauled down by the police, who eventually set up barriers across the street, and hauled them off behind it. Two 12 year olds were arrested."
http://www.mrwebby.com/members/anthginn/Poetsagainstwar/10,000poems.htm
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Accounts from around the world of the presentations of the Poets Against the War anthology:
United States, Washington, DC
by Emily Warn
At the noontime press conference on Capitol Hill, the words of W.S. Merwin, Terry Tempest Williams and Sam Hamill cast a spellbound silence over reporters and film crews, over members of Congress and the European Parliament who had all packed into a small conference room on Capitol Hill. It was a brief and dignified ceremony.
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/March5reports.asp
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And extensive press coverage collected on one page:
March 8, 2003 Tens of thousands have visited the Poets Against the War web site since it first appeared on Thursday, January 30th, and news stories have appeared in scores of newspapers/radio/TV, etc. nationally and internationally about PAW and the cancellation by the White House of Laura Bush's poetry tea party. Following are a few links to news stories about Poets Against the War.
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/news.asp
Posted by Jonathan Skinner at March 09, 2003 02:52 AM